From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Marcin Borkowski Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs Lisp's future Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2016 06:06:59 +0200 Message-ID: <87eg3nwmu4.fsf@mbork.pl> References: <87wq97i78i.fsf@earlgrey.lan> <86k2dk77w6.fsf@molnjunk.nocrew.org> <642fd4b4-8b1c-a537-5a5f-6940691ec4b9@gmail.com> <861szo4zgq.fsf@gko.net> <86wphg2tpk.fsf@gko.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1476158868 20148 195.159.176.226 (11 Oct 2016 04:07:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2016 04:07:48 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: mu4e 0.9.17; emacs 26.0.50.1 Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Georges Ko Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 11 06:07:45 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1btoLp-0003uq-Ui for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 11 Oct 2016 06:07:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53640 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1btoLo-0005jf-Gh for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 11 Oct 2016 00:07:36 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49067) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1btoLD-0005jM-EV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Oct 2016 00:07:00 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1btoL9-0001kq-7X for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Oct 2016 00:06:59 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.mojserwer.eu ([195.110.48.8]:59725) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1btoL9-0001j6-0W for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Oct 2016 00:06:55 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.mojserwer.eu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 839B0E6836; Tue, 11 Oct 2016 06:06:50 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at mail.mojserwer.eu Original-Received: from mail.mojserwer.eu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.mojserwer.eu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id imcFMEVQAt7b; Tue, 11 Oct 2016 06:06:48 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (static-dwadziewiec-jedenpiec7.echostar.pl [109.232.29.157]) by mail.mojserwer.eu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 198B9E64AF; Tue, 11 Oct 2016 06:06:48 +0200 (CEST) In-reply-to: <86wphg2tpk.fsf@gko.net> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 195.110.48.8 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:208147 Archived-At: On 2016-10-10, at 15:56, Georges Ko wrote: >> Are you familiar with the names package? > > It looks exactly what I had in mind :). Thanks! Be sure to check out also the nameless package by the same author! > Georges BTW, someone (Raman?) on this thread said that namespaces save typing. That's not exactly right; that goal is achieved with autocompletion (as he already noticed). What namespaces really do is twofold: 1. Help avoid collisions, and 2. (last but not least!) save on reading. Long function names are really bad. Elisp is not Java. Best, -- Marcin Borkowski